The list below contains the Texas Holdem Top Ten poker hands, pre-flop, poker hands that you can be dealt when playing Texas Hold Em Poker. There are 169 differing starting hands – your two hole (or hidden) cards. With the exception of when you post the blinds, these are the …
Read More »Trash Talking to Poker Opponents – Does It Really Work?
The “good ol’ days” when poker games were mostly quiet and played by people with the proverbial “poker faces”seems to be gone, with the influx of “trash talking” both in online and in live poker games. The question being asked by many players is whether trash talking works or not. …
Read More »World Series of Poker – A Very Brief History Overview
Anyone who is interested in poker has at least heard of the World Series of Poker, if not seen it on their TV or Youtube. This poker tournament is one of the most popular and well known poker tournaments out there. It has become known as the big daddy of …
Read More »WSOP Main Event Winners
We thought it would be nice to take a look at the (World Series of Poker) WSOP Main Event Winners from the past, the year they won and the amount of prize money they collected from winning the WSOP Main Event. As you can see from the table below, in …
Read More »Opening Game Strategy with Texas Holdem Poker
The end of the poker game is the most important thing. No matter what happens before the end, it only matters who has the chips (and the check) at the end of the tournament. However, a solid strategy in the early stages of the game is essentially to entering the …
Read More »What makes Online Poker Popular?
Online poker sites started out small years ago. Since then, they have seen amazing growth and captured the attention of players worldwide. Online poker rooms have done this by providing players with many different things they find beneficial to them. Anyone looking to play poker should jump on one of …
Read More »Online or Live Poker? Some Pros and Cons for Both
Online or Live Poker (differences and pros and cons of both.) Poker players like to play in an environment they can count on to offer them a great setting, good competition, and an all around exciting experience packed full of chances to win impressive pots. Many players have found they …
Read More »Losing Out with Poker Tournament Chips? Don’t Give Up
Many people playing a poker tournament get to a point in the game where they find themselves low on poker tournament chips and essentially give up and go on tilt until their chips are spent and they are kicked unceremoniously from the tournament due to not having two chips to …
Read More »Going on Tilt – Avoid at All Costs
For the beginners reading this, going on tilt is not a good thing. We’ll have a look at what going on tilt is and more to the point, how to avoid it when playing poker. First off, for the uninitiated, going on tilt is, when a poker player, normally through …
Read More »Freerolls – What Are, Why Play Freeroll Poker Tournaments?
Freeroll tournaments are online poker games which have no buy-ins but still pay out actual cash prizes. In other words, you do not have to pay money upfront to join in – but you gain a better than even chance of getting some money with which to bankroll your entry …
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